2 Blue Books

2 Blue readers know to look for the known inside the unknown. They have their fingers on the text, covering up beginnings and endings of unfamiliar words, looking for chunks, vowel patterns, endings, little words inside bigger words, as they successfully figure out the 2-syllable words common to 2 Blue text. 2 Blue books begin to include narratives with some characterization and simple plots. Be careful, because 2 Blue is the first level in which readers can decode without following the meaning of the text. Titles may be subject to change due to availability.